Working with Templates
  • 19 Nov 2021
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Working with Templates

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Templates can be created and used at different levels of configuration:

  •  Tag level: Tag templates and device templates containing tags.
  • Communications level: Templates for communication clients (Modbus, OPC, Siemens, etc.) including preliminary configuration of the connection.

The Model tree for each section can be used to instantiate templates and provide the values for Custom Properties, assigning different values for each instance.

This User Guide assumes a basic understanding of Object-Oriented paradigm. 

Custom Properties

In order to use the templates, it is possible to create Custom Properties within each template to be used as parameters. Custom properties are what differentiate instances derived from the same template. These Custom Properties can then be referenced in the Expressions to calculate specific values for each instance. Custom properties are referenced in the Expressions using the name of the Custom Property in curly braces { }.

Expressions

JavaScript expressions can be used on each data entry to calculate the value. All expressions start with “=” (like in spreadsheets). Expressions are only evaluated during the start-up of the module.

Examples of expressions assuming the following Custom Properties:

Custom Property Name
Type
Value
Boolean01
Boolean
True
Boolean02
Boolean
False
Number01
Number
5
Number02
Number
25
Text01
Text
Hello
Text02
Text
World!


Action
Expression
Result
Concatenation
={Text01}+" "+{Text02}
Hello World!
Sum
={Number01}+{Number02}
30
Conditional
={Boolean01}==1?{Number01}:{Number02}
5
Conditional
=['A','B','C','D','E'][{Number01}-2]
D
String methods
={Text02}.substr(0,1)+{Text01}.slice(1,4)
Well

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